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The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Henry921 » Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:13 pm

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That Bot wrote:I think we'd ALL like to see more Shockwave toys.


Yeah, but the problem is Takara already repurposed Generations/Fall of Cybertron Shockers for that role in their Prime line. While I love that mold, Shockwave's figure is way too small as a deluxe to fit in scale wise. I need a voyager scale Shockers, and ideally a Cyberverse Leader too. At the moment I'm using DoTM Shockwave, because he's the closest to matching the look of the cartoon, though admittedly, that's only because Energon Shockblast doesn't have such an awesome gun hose.


Back on topic, Airachnid. Dead- yea or nay?

My guess is she's still alive, but also still encased in her prison, and she now decorates the wall of Megatron's quarters.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:07 am

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I'm guessing she survived. But my guess doesn't make too much sense considering I'm basing it off the fact that she's getting a Cyberverse figure in Wave 1 of Beast Hunters. >:oP
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Red 50 » Tue Dec 25, 2012 12:28 pm

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Well, since the next season is gonna be about predatory transformers, I think it wouldn't be so bright idea to write out Airachnid just yet. With her skills she might become quite good asset to the cast.
And who's to say she couldn't become something similar to Starscream in season 2.

Although personally I hope she gets fragged.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Tue Dec 25, 2012 1:17 pm

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Ironic how everyone seems to hate Airachnid now when she was such a big hit back in her initial appearances ("Predatory" and "Crisscross" especially). :P
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby King Kuuga » Tue Dec 25, 2012 2:07 pm

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I think her godawful toy is having a subliminal influence.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Shadowman » Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:29 pm

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Red 50 wrote:And who's to say she couldn't become something similar to Starscream in season 2.


She did.She tried to pull a Starscream while Megatron was with the Autobots in the Earth's core. Then Soundwave smacked her down. And, like Starscream, Megatron tried and failed to have her killed, only for her to run off and go rogue.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Red 50 » Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:01 pm

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Shadowman wrote:
Red 50 wrote:And who's to say she couldn't become something similar to Starscream in season 2.


She did.She tried to pull a Starscream while Megatron was with the Autobots in the Earth's core. Then Soundwave smacked her down. And, like Starscream, Megatron tried and failed to have her killed, only for her to run off and go rogue.


Actually what I meant was that she would act like Starscream did in s2:
*Try to handle things on her own,
*Succeed in small factors,
*Make bad deals with wrong people,
*Try to buy herself back into the 'Cons with something valuable.

Sabrblade wrote:Ironic how everyone seems to hate Airachnid now when she was such a big hit back in her initial appearances ("Predatory" and "Crisscross" especially). :P


Actually she plays her part well: she's the villain that you just can't help but to despise. For me (and probably for some some others, too) the final drop in the cup was killing Breakdown. Yeah, she makes a great minor-villain.

That Bot wrote:I think her godawful toy is having a subliminal influence.


Nah, I don't judge them by toys.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Shadowman » Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:39 pm

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Red 50 wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
Red 50 wrote:And who's to say she couldn't become something similar to Starscream in season 2.


She did.She tried to pull a Starscream while Megatron was with the Autobots in the Earth's core. Then Soundwave smacked her down. And, like Starscream, Megatron tried and failed to have her killed, only for her to run off and go rogue.


Actually what I meant was that she would act like Starscream did in s2:
*Try to handle things on her own,
*Succeed in small factors,
*Make bad deals with wrong people,
*Try to buy herself back into the 'Cons with something valuable.


Again, she did all of those things in Season 1.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby G1 Smoketreader » Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:05 pm

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Shadowman wrote:
Red 50 wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
Red 50 wrote:And who's to say she couldn't become something similar to Starscream in season 2.


She did.She tried to pull a Starscream while Megatron was with the Autobots in the Earth's core. Then Soundwave smacked her down. And, like Starscream, Megatron tried and failed to have her killed, only for her to run off and go rogue.


Actually what I meant was that she would act like Starscream did in s2:
*Try to handle things on her own,
*Succeed in small factors,
*Make bad deals with wrong people,
*Try to buy herself back into the 'Cons with something valuable.


Again, she did all of those things in Season 1.


She's have a lot of good tie-in uses for the start of S3 (I already typed up my take on them so won't repeat)and could even lair comfortably in the bowels of megz fortress as a hiding lone rogue but the small number of episodes leads me to assume she'll be lightly used.

Speaking of decorations for Megz: I'll be disappointed if Megz doesn't rip the arm off of incapacitated Optimus and weld it to himself as a trophy-testament(I would!). Should this happen, I'll be doubly disappointed if reanimated Optimus doesn't counter the action by welding the arm of 'Anonymous Prime' onto himself to stay in the game(I would,again!).

Also just realized the Energon Knockout is working on is in position to help Optimus break out of Decep fort-prison (or ship prison tho I'm sure they'll relocate all major facilities to the fort) with a vengeance.Assuming they take him prisoner, of course.

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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Henry921 » Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:36 am

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Sabrblade wrote:Ironic how everyone seems to hate Airachnid now when she was such a big hit back in her initial appearances ("Predatory" and "Crisscross" especially). :P


Well, yeah Airachnid has been a great character, pretty consistently. It's not her we hate, but rather she became the outlet for all the anger her toy caused, and we started hating her by association.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:48 am

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Most of the complaints I've herd are that she's too overpowered, hasn't undergone any real character development at all, is an easy excuse for Arcee to go emo again and again despite learning the same lesson of self-control over and over, doesn't suffer defeat as often as other Cons thus making them look bad, and has become repetitive in how she's used.

Not my words, just compiling all that's been said.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Henry921 » Wed Dec 26, 2012 2:36 pm

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Sabrblade wrote:Most of the complaints I've herd are that she's too overpowered, hasn't undergone any real character development at all, is an easy excuse for Arcee to go emo again and again despite learning the same lesson of self-control over and over, doesn't suffer defeat as often as other Cons thus making them look bad, and has become repetitive in how she's used.


Overpowered? She seems roughly as powerful as Starscream, which is to say she has her moments, but is only really successful when she exploits an opportunity.

Prime's been pretty consistent in treating the Cons as major, significant threats, with only the Insecticons and arguably Dreadwing becoming noticeably weaker as Season 2 went along. Knock Out's the only one who seems significantly weaker than Team Prime's members, and he certainly had moments of competency this season.


Lack of character development? Yeah, okay, that's true. [-(
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:37 pm

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Henry921 wrote:Overpowered? She seems roughly as powerful as Starscream,

Yet she's bested him every time she went up against him (save for the one time Screamer shot her and inadvertently saved Arcee, since he wasn't involved in that conflict until he popped up out of nowhere to sneak attack her).
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:02 pm

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Hey, everyone! Now we know what Ser-Ket transforms into. Another Dragon! :APPLAUSE:

Look at Ripclaw. Perhaps a repaint is in order?

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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Henry921 » Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:03 pm

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Huh.

Well, a female Predacon joining the cast pretty much nullifies any chance of Airachnid reappearing, since the Cons have their token fembot. Still wouldn't be surprised if she showed up (in stasis) as an easter egg or a gag.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:12 pm

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Who said Ripclaw was joining the cast? There are going to be Predacons in the toyline that won't show up in season three.

My point was, now that there's Ripclaw, Ser-Ket could get a toy. They're the same body-type. This would also increase his/her chances of joining the line of Predacons that pop in the next season.

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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby G1 Smoketreader » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:44 am

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If the show is lucky and gets more seasons, Airachnid could get a draw of the twins card- meaning she could be killed off now just to let another of her kind (and appearance) appear later to keep the status quo shaken up. (I still thing that in this smaller number of episodes her backstory as hunter could help the story quickly & decisively by allowing her to try to take on Predaking and be killed off by Predaking just to show off his awesomeness without killing Autobots right away).

One thing I admire about this show is that in the battle to throw down Megatron, all lesser 'warlords' have fallen to the wayside. This is an aspect of TF lore that I feel needed good telling, and has been told well enough in Prime.

All your posts are making me wonder about Shockwaves long term political interests. I doubt Predaking will care too much about overall master plans.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Henry921 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:41 am

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All your posts are making me wonder about Shockwaves long term political interests. I doubt Predaking will care too much about overall master plans.



Predaking is a total cipher so far; my guess is he has some master plan, but not necessarily one that conflicts with the Cons' agenda. We really have nothing to go on in terms of his characterization, so I'm just gonna say he likes to kill dem Autobots, because they done blowed up real good.

As for Shockwave, as much as I'd love for him to have his G1 comics characterization and challenge Megs for leadership at some point, I'm pretty sure all his appearances in the Aligned continuity have portrayed him as a Decepticon loyalist. The only exception I can think of is the War for Cybertron DS games, where he's a boss in the Decepticon campaign, whom Megatron defeats in battle, thus earning his allegiance to the cause. Since most of Prime seems to be based off the Exodus novel, my guess is Shockwave's just there to replenish the diminished number of named Decepticons and appear sporadically in fight scenes, seeing as his animation model's already been made.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:49 pm

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I know I'm about a week and a half behind, but here are the Vortexx edits to episodes 3 and 4 that I noticed.

Episode 3 -

Right after Bulkhead yells, "Miko, look away!" everything is cut up until the close up of Miko going "Whoa." So we lost Miko's "But!", Bulkhead's "Turn your head away!", and Bulkhead disemboweling the Vehicon he was fighting.

After Starscream says, "I ask nicely one last time. The Autobot Base!" to the chained up Fowler, they cut out everything until the close up of Fowler right as he screams while being zapped by the Energon prod. So we lost his line of "Sure thing, buddy. Right after you eat my star-spangled shorts!" and Starscream holding up the Energon prod into view and crackling it for a second. He still gets obviously zapped in the edited version, though, since the actual zapping was indeed off screen in the original version.


Episode 4 -

After Optimus agrees to Ratchet's suggesting they "dissect" the Terrorcons, Optimus swings his swords around at them and drives a sword through the body of one of the zombies, getting its head caught on the blade and being raised up and detached from its body. This fancy beheading is cut.

When Bulkhead leaps onto the Nemesis, he immediately runs into a Vehicon whose head Bulkhead lobs off and sends flying as another Vehicon opens fire on Bulkhead. Bulkhead then picks up and uses the headless Vehicon as a shield and fires back at the other Vehicon, who gets hit, recovers, then opens fire again just as Bulkhead is about to land on top of him. This entire sequence is cut from right as Bulkhead leaps onto the ship and begins to run, to when the other Vehicon gets hit, recovers, and resumes shooting at him, making it look like Bulkhead was running towards this Vehicon instead of the one he beheads.

The first scene between Fowler and Starscream is trimmed down. A few shots of Fowler as Starscream walks towards Fowler and says, "My dear Agent Fowler, you do realize the Autobots have abandoned you," are cut, with the scene now beginning with Starscream simply saying, "The Autobots have abandoned you." A shot of Screamer looking at Fowler is also cut. As Starscream raises the Energon prod after threatening Fowler once more, the shot of him holding it near Fowler, Fowler weakly saying, "Please... no more. They're in.. secret government base," and Starscream's line of "Go on..." are all cut out, but part Fowler's line ("Please... no more,") IS kept intact. It's just placed over the part when Starscream begins to lift up the Energon prod before the big cut occurs and switches the scene to a close up of Fowler's face as they hear laser fire beyond the door. Then they cut out when Starscream says "Yes?", when Fowler says "In the old steel mill. Or was it under that carnival fun house?", and Starscream's angry reaction just before he drives the prod into Fowler. The driving of the prod into Fowler and him being zapped by it, however, are left COMPLETELY INTACT, and the scene plays out normally from there.

When the scene cuts back to Optimus and Ratchet fighting the zombies, immediately there is a shot of Optimus driving his sword through a zombie's torso. This is cut out.




EDIT (March 2, 2013): Here's a revision of the above comparisons based on a re-watch of the episodes side-by-side with the uncut versions.

Episode 3 -

1. Right after Bulkhead yells, "Miko, look away!" everything is cut up until the close up of Miko going "Whoa." So we lost Miko's "But!", Bulkhead's "Turn your head away!", and Bulkhead disemboweling the Vehicon he was fighting.

2. the new commercial break played after Bulkhead and Miko both as the newly-GroundBridge Jack and Raf sre spotted by a Vehicon from up on the Nemesis, right before the scene cuts back to Starscream interrogating Fowler.

3. After Starscream says, "I ask nicely one last time. The Autobot Base!" to the chained up Fowler, they cut out everything up to the close up of Fowler right as he screams while being zapped by the Energon prod. So we lost his line of "Sure thing, buddy. Right after you eat my star-spangled shorts!" and Starscream holding up the Energon prod into view and crackling it for a second. He still gets obviously zapped in the edited version, though, since the actual zapping was indeed off screen in the original version.


Episode 4 -

1. After Optimus agrees to Ratchet's suggesting they "dissect" the Terrorcons, Optimus swings his swords around at them and drives a sword through the body of one of the zombies, getting its head caught on the blade and being raised up and detached from its body. This fancy beheading is cut.

2. When Bulkhead leaps onto the Nemesis, he immediately runs into a Vehicon whose head Bulkhead lobs off and sends flying as another Vehicon opens fire on Bulkhead. Bulkhead then picks up and uses the headless Vehicon as a shield and fires back at the other Vehicon, who gets hit, recovers, then opens fire again just as Bulkhead is about to land on top of him. This entire sequence is cut from right as Bulkhead leaps onto the ship and begins to run, to when the other Vehicon gets hit, recovers, and resumes shooting at him, making it look like Bulkhead was running towards this Vehicon all along instead of the other one that he beheads.

3. The first scene between Fowler and Starscream is trimmed down. A few shots of Fowler as Starscream walks towards him and says, "My dear Agent Fowler, you do realize the Autobots have abandoned you," are cut, with the scene now beginning with Starscream simply saying, "The Autobots have abandoned you." A shot of Screamer looking at Fowler is also cut. As Starscream raises the Energon prod after threatening Fowler once more, the shot of him holding it near Fowler, Fowler weakly saying, "Please... no more. They're in.. secret government base," and Starscream's line of "Go on..." are all cut out, but the "Please... no more," part of Fowler's line IS kept intact. It's just placed over the part where Starscream begins to lift up the Energon prod before the big cut occurs and then switches the scene to a close up of Fowler's face as they hear laser fire beyond the door. Then they cut out when Starscream responds with "Yes?", Fowler's answer of "In the old steel mill. Or was it under that carnival fun house?", and Starscream's angry reaction just before he drives the prod into Fowler. The driving of the prod into Fowler and him being zapped by it, however, are left COMPLETELY INTACT, and the scene plays out normally from there.

4. When the scene cuts back to Optimus and Ratchet fighting the zombies, the very first thing we see is a shot of Optimus driving his sword through a zombie's torso. This is cut out.

5. The bit of Jack saying "Miko, Raf was almost killed! This isn't a game! When are you gonna get that through your thick skull?!" and Miko responding with "Um, we were all almost killed, Jack. You, me, Raf, even them!" is all cut out.

6. The new commercial break played right after Megatron says "Explain, Starscream. Quickly."
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:36 pm

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Rage of the Dinobots - Issue #2.

Everything was pretty boring to me up until the end. Dinobots go to rescue Ultra Magnus and Swoop...yada-yada-yada...more prisoners...blah blah blah...set them free...Ser-Ket revealed that Swoop had become one of the Forged...yawn-

Wait, WHAT!?!?!?!?!?! :shock:

Coooooool! :KREMZEEK:

I wonder if the other three Dinobots will be re-forged, leaving Grimlock the only Dinobot to appear in the cartoon as I predicted.

And maybe the re-forged Predacon Dinobots are the side-switchers in the third season?
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Rodimus2006 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:47 pm

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I been on break done me a Mega Transformers Marathon here at home watching everyone of my Transformers Series, then I played the games and watch the movies along with the Animated Film.

But I know just cause they are toys of certain characters dosent necessarily mean they will show in TV rather in full force or as a cameo or a flashback episode type of deal.

There have been many characters in the Toy Lines that havent even been shown in Prime yet such as Ultrmagnus, other Toy Lines from Armada and the others some of those also didnt show in Armada they just had toy lines.

The Movie-verse does it similar also with many characters as toys but none or little show up in the movie physically other than the main core cast of characters.

2013 marks my 29th year being with Transformers. Cant wait for the Return of Prime. Seeing Predaking in action is going to be sick an awesome, I am more than curious & interested in seeing Preadakings abilites, his transformation or if he will have one, and lastly his weapons if he will have any.

Shockwave is the largely unknown how will be brought in & how will he be used and you can bet he will be holding a grudge against Arcee she was the one that blasted him in the Ground Bridge.

The Decepicons will be a big time promblem they are back in full force at least for awhile but I dont see it lasting this way for long. Right now they have a common goal hunting down the remaning Autobots and the Human Allies.

Predaking will be a big part of this. Rather or not there will be new characters in S3 dosent really concern me. I am more interested in the fate of Optimus yes he will return but how will it be done. Also lastly will he be the same Optimus Prime or will be upgrade to Optimus Primal.

What role will the human kids have Jack, Miko & Raf, is Wheeljack destroyed no I dont think he is however I do think he is badly damaged and marooned alone and cut-off.

The biggest deal I want more on is the deal where Earth & Cybertron are Twin Planets could this have to do with Unicron becoming the Earth.

Primus = Good (Cybertron / Unicron = Evil/ (Earth two sides of the same coin.

Explains the Dark Citadel on Earth but mostly this was cause of the Omega Lock and Megatron.

What other kind of plot devices from the past will be used & shown maybe that Weather Device from Generation 1 where BB shot it down. They are tons that havent been used that could be used in Prime.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Fri Jan 04, 2013 8:05 pm

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Optimus will probably upgrade into his Voyager figure.

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Wheeljack isn't dead. His ship just crashed for the fourth time.

The Fortress of New Kaon, not the Dark Citadel.

Unicron has nothing to do with the Fortress. It's all on the Omega Lock.

I don't want to see rehashes of the same old bull. DOTM took The Ultimate Doom's plot points, and we don't need Prime doing the same.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Rodimus2006 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:28 pm

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I know what the tower is officially called I like the Dark Citadel Better.

What I meant to say I was doing some reading on Prime they said in the future episodes something will be revealed that Cybertron & Earth are connected somehow to me this smells of a Season 3 end plot story arc.

Shockwave will more than likely show in a multipart episode, while Predaking will be revealed early on the very 1st episodes of Season 3.

Me, I am more curious to see where Autobot Team goes from here, always on the run or will they find a Temporary 2nd base that is better hidden & more off the grid.

Or will they be always on the run until Optimus returns, I hope Ultramagnus returns he hasnt been in anything hardly so it woulld be cool to see him in Action On Prime TV rather than just his toy.

He could replace Optimus as temp leader until OP returns.

Do I think the dinobots will show in Prime yes do I think all of them will be shown no I dont maybe in the terms of Animated style Dinbots being only a 3 Team Deal.

Stuff from the comics are always diffrent from the TV however they do use deals from the comics they just twist it.

Cant wait to see the return of Prime also more curious will it be the same ole opening Sequence at the beginning they need to change this now that OP is gone.

But leave the theme music intact just a new opening sequence showing all the new characters such as Predaking, Shockwave & WheelJack and the Dark Citadel in the background.

I know its name the Tower I call it what I want, I do have Prime season 1 & Season 2 on DVD along with Fall of Cybertron on my 360.

Bet Transformers 3 will be for next-gen PS4-720.

Shockwave & Predaking will be the most focus in S3 there will be more to it than just the Autbots on the run such as Season 2 dealt with the Iacon Relics Season 3 will also feature something important.

I guess around April or May is when Prime will return.
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby Sabrblade » Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:33 pm

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Rodimus2006 wrote:I been on break done me a Mega Transformers Marathon here at home watching everyone of my Transformers Series, then I played the games and watch the movies along with the Animated Film.

But I know just cause they are toys of certain characters dosent necessarily mean they will show in TV rather in full force or as a cameo or a flashback episode type of deal.

There have been many characters in the Toy Lines that havent even been shown in Prime yet such as Ultrmagnus, other Toy Lines from Armada and the others some of those also didnt show in Armada they just had toy lines.

The Movie-verse does it similar also with many characters as toys but none or little show up in the movie physically other than the main core cast of characters.

2013 marks my 29th year being with Transformers.
All of that is off topic, since no one was talking about characters who may or may not appear in the show.

Rodimus2006 wrote:Cant wait for the Return of Prime. Seeing Predaking in action is going to be sick an awesome, I am more than curious & interested in seeing Preadakings abilites, his transformation or if he will have one, and lastly his weapons if he will have any.
His toy shows both a robot mode and a beast mode.

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Rodimus2006 wrote:Predaking will be a big part of this. Rather or not there will be new characters in S3 dosent really concern me. I am more interested in the fate of Optimus yes he will return but how will it be done. Also lastly will he be the same Optimus Prime or will be upgrade to Optimus Primal.
What PrymeStriker said. Optimus has a new toy coming ,so if he gets any upgrade, it's probably look like that (which is still named "Optimus Prime").

Rodimus2006 wrote:The biggest deal I want more on is the deal where Earth & Cybertron are Twin Planets could this have to do with Unicron becoming the Earth.
It's more along the lines of, where Earth had dinosaur as its ancient species, Cybertron had Predacons instead. Basically, the Predacons are to Cybertron what dinosaurs were to Earth. ;)

Rodimus2006 wrote:Explains the Dark Citadel on Earth but mostly this was cause of the Omega Lock and Megatron.
Uh... yeah, the fortress of New Kaon was all Megatron and the Lock. Nothing to do with Unicron.

Rodimus2006 wrote:What other kind of plot devices from the past will be used & shown maybe that Weather Device from Generation 1 where BB shot it down. They are tons that havent been used that could be used in Prime.
Well, Rescue Bots already went the route of having its own weather-controlling device, so, that's already well and done. ;)
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Re: The Official Transformers: Prime Discussion Thread

Postby PrymeStriker » Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:17 am

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After what happened to Swoop this issue, there's a slim chance of all the Dinobots showing up, Rodimus. My bet is on Sludge, Snarl, and Slug joining Swoop in being re-forged into a Predacon and leaving Grimlock and Ultra Magnus to join the Autobots in the third season. Then, in the finale, the four Dinobots turned Predacons switch sides.

You know what would be a twist? All the Dinobots become Predacons and Predaking is Grimlock re-forged. :lol:
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